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Social Media

The latest Social Media news from our blog

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Social Media
Chris Grant (he/him)

Instagram is killing-off its Following tab

Instagram is removing its Following tab, a feature which became better known as a stalking tool rather than its purpose to aid with new account discovery.

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Social Media
Tom Furmanski

Guiding twitter users from a public Tweet to a private conversation

Find out how to create a link that will allow you to direct people from a public Tweet into a (private conversation) Direct Message. Twitter will turn that simple URL into a link with a clear call to action that guides a user straight into composing a new Direct Message.

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Social Media
Tom Furmanski

You can no longer turn off “Related Videos” when embedding a video from YouTube

According to their official statement, YouTube feels “Titles, channel information, and related videos are an important part of YouTube’s core user experience, and these changes help to make the YouTube viewing experience consistent across different platforms”.

So, YouTube considers related videos an important part of their core experience and that enabling related videos on embedded clips maintains “consistency”.

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Social Media
Chris Grant (he/him)

[Infographic] Is Facebook becoming social media’s retirement home?

Even though it might be a bit of a stretch to describe Facebook as social media’s retirement home, the social network is experiencing an exodus of young people while increasing numbers of over 55s are signing up. Facebook is generally struggling to retain its user base and today, it has an estimated 15 million fewer U.S. users than it did in 2017.